caa a22 4500 39754667X CHVBK 20180308164740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19961101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/aesa/89.6.869 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/aesa/89.6.869 Iwasaki Yasushi Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Joetsu University of Education, 1 Yamayasiki-machi, Joetsu-shi, Niigata 943, Japan. Hunting and Mating Behavior in the Japanese Hangingfly Bittacus mastrillii (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) [Elektronische Daten] [Yasushi Iwasaki] The hunting and mating behavior of Bittacus mastrillii Navás was studied in the mountainous region of central Japan. Adults emerged from mid-September to mid-October and exhibited positive phototaxy. Both males and females congregated at a particular type of flowering plant to prey on other insects after sunset and continuously mated at the same site. The hunting site was on thistle flowers, Cirsium microspicatum Nakai, in full bloom, where motionless crane flies and moths were hunted easily. Three types of male mating behavior were observed under artificially lighted areas (air temperature was 8-12°C): (1) olfactory calling behavior, where prey-hunting males lure females through pheromone emission; (2) gift-from-passive-feinale behavior, where males copulate with prey-hunting females without providing any resources except sperm; and (3) saliva-secreting behavior, where males copulate forcibly with females while secreting saliva. The foraging specialization of hunting live insects on thistle flowers without unnecessary energy losses makes it possible to subsist at low temperature conditions. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Behavior nationallicence Bittacus mastrillii nationallicence Japanese hangingfly nationallicence mating behavior nationallicence hunting behavior nationallicence nuptial feeding nationallicence Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/6(1996-11-01), 869-874 0013-8746 89:6<869 1996 89 aesa https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.6.869 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/89.6.869 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Iwasaki Yasushi Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Joetsu University of Education, 1 Yamayasiki-machi, Joetsu-shi, Niigata 943, Japan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of the Entomological Society of America Oxford University Press 89/6(1996-11-01), 869-874 0013-8746 89:6<869 1996 89 aesa Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford